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About Shu Wan

I am currently matriculated as a doctoral student in history at the University at Buffalo. My dissertation primarily examine the history of deafness, including deaf politics, deaf community, and deaf education, in China between the 1880s and 1940s.

Shu Wan is currently matriculated as a doctoral student in history at the University at Buffalo. As a digital and disability historian, he serves in the editorial team of Digital Humanities Quarterly and Nursing Clio. On Twitter: @slissw.

NBN Episodes hosted by Shu:

Disability Studies September 26, 2023

Madwomen in Social Justice Movements, Literatures, and Art

Jessica Lowell Mason and Nicole Crevar

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Jessica Lowell Mason and Nicole Crevar's Madwomen in Social Justice Movements, Literatures, and Art (Vernon Press, 2023) boldly reasserts the importance of the Madwoman more than four decades after the publication …
Disability Studies September 21, 2023

Mediating Alzheimer's

Cognition and Personhood

Scott Selberg

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With no known cause or cure despite a century of research, Alzheimer's disease is a true medical mystery. In Mediating Alzheimer's: Cognition and Personhood (U Minnesota Press, 2022), Scott Selberg …
Disability Studies September 20, 2023

Not Good Enough for Canada

Canadian Public Discourse Around Issues of Inadmissibility for Potential Immigrants with Diseases And/Or Disabilities

Valentina Capurri

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Valentina Capurri's book Not Good Enough for Canada: Canadian Public Discourse Around Issues of Inadmissibility for Potential Immigrants with Diseases And/Or Disabilities (U Toronto Press, 2020) investigates the development of Canadian …
Disability Studies September 20, 2023

Fixing the Poor

Eugenic Sterilization and Child Welfare in the Twentieth Century

Molly Ladd-Taylor

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Between 1907 and 1937, thirty-two states legalized the sterilization of more than 63,000 Americans. In Fixing the Poor: Eugenic Sterilization and Child Welfare in the Twentieth Century (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020) …
Chinese Studies September 18, 2023

Contemporary Chinese Queer Performance

Hongwei Bao

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In Contemporary Chinese Queer Performance (Routledge, 2022), Hongwei Bao analyses queer theatre and performance in contemporary China. Boa documents various forms of queer performance - including music, film, theatre, and …
Chinese Studies September 10, 2023

Violent Intimacy

Family Harmony, State Stability, and Intimate Partner Violence in Post-Socialist China

Tiantian Zheng

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Based on ethnographic research with victims of intimate partner violence since 2014, Tiantian Zheng's Violent Intimacy: Family Harmony, State Stability, and Intimate Partner Violence in Post-Socialist China (Bloomsbury, 2022) brings …
Disability Studies September 9, 2023

Lame Captains and Left-Handed Admirals

Amputee Officers in Nelson's Navy

Teresa Michals

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The well-known Admiral Horatio Nelson fought all of his most historically significant battles after he lost his right arm and the sight in one eye. With this notable exception, however …
Chinese Studies September 6, 2023

A Feminist Reading of China’s Digital Public Sphere

Altman Yuzhu Peng

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In A Feminist Reading of China’s Digital Public Sphere (Palgrave Pivot, 2020), Altman Yuzhu Peng articulates how feminism and pseudo-feminism become confused in contemporary Chinese society, and how this confusion is invoked by …
Disability Studies September 5, 2023

Eugenics, Genetics, and Disability in Historical and Contemporary Perspective

Implications for the Social Work Profession

Gerald O'Brien

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Gerald O'Brien's book Eugenics, Genetics, and Disability in Historical and Contemporary Perspective: Implications for the Social Work Profession (Oxford UP, 2023) focuses on the conceptual relationship between the American eugenic movement …
Disability Studies September 2, 2023

Madness in Buenos Aires

Patients, Psychiatrists, and the Argentine State, 1880-1983

Jonathan Ablard

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Madness in Buenos Aires: Patients, Psychiatrists, and the Argentine State, 1880-1983 (Ohio UP, 2008) examines the interactions between psychiatrists, patients and their families, and the national state in modern Argentina …
Disability Studies September 2, 2023

Disability Pride

Dispatches from a Post-ADA World

Ben Mattlin

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In Disability Pride: Dispatches from a Post-ADA World (Beacon, 2022), disabled journalist Ben Mattlin weaves together interviews and reportage to introduce a cavalcade of individuals, ideas, and events in engaging …
Science, Technology, and Society August 5, 2023

Deep Cut

Science, Power, and the Unbuilt Interoceanic Canal

Christine Keiner

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The Atlantic-Pacific Central American sea-level canal is generally regarded as a spectacular failure. However, Deep Cut: Science, Power, and the Unbuilt Interoceanic Canal (U Georgia Press, 2020) examines the canal …
Disability Studies August 5, 2023

Giving and Taking Voice in Learning Disabled Theatre

Tony McCaffrey

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Giving and Taking Voice in Learning Disabled Theatre (Routledge, 2023) offers unique insight into the question of 'voice' in learning disabled theatre and what is gained and lost in making performance …
Disability Studies June 28, 2023

California and the Politics of Disability, 1850–1970

Eileen V. Wallis

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Eileen V. Wallis' book California and the Politics of Disability, 1850–1970 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023) explores the political, legal, medical, and social battles that led to the widespread institutionalization of Californians with …
American West June 23, 2023

California, a Slave State

Jean Pfaelzer

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California owes its origins and sunny prosperity to slavery. Spanish invaders captured Indigenous people to build the chain of Catholic missions. Russian otter hunters shipped Alaska Natives--the first slaves transported …
Chinese Studies June 19, 2023

State and Family in China

Yue Du

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In Imperial China, the idea of filial piety not only shaped family relations but was also the official ideology by which Qing China was governed. In State and Family in …
Sports June 12, 2023

A History of Competitive Gaming

Zhouxiang Lu

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Competitive gaming, or esports - referring to competitive tournaments of video games among both casual gamers and professional players - began in the early 1970s with small competitions like the …
Disability Studies June 10, 2023

Tōjisha Manga

Japan’s Graphic Memoirs of Brain and Mental Health

Yoshiko Okuyama

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Yoshiko Okuyama's book Tōjisha Manga: Japan’s Graphic Memoirs of Brain and Mental Health (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) defines tōjisha manga as Japan’s autobiographical comics in which the author recounts the experience of …
Disability Studies June 9, 2023

Cheap Talk

Disability and the Politics of Communication

Joshua St. Pierre

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In Cheap Talk: Disability and the Politics of Communication (U Michigan Press, 2022), Joshua St. Pierre flips the script on communication disability, positioning the unruly, disabled speaker at the center of …
Asian American Studies June 8, 2023

Pedagogies of Woundedness

Illness, Memoir, and the Ends of the Model Minority

James Kyung-Jin Lee

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The pressures Asian Americans feel to be socially and economically exceptional include an unspoken mandate to always be healthy. Nowhere is this more evident than in the expectation for Asian …
Chinese Studies June 7, 2023

World History and National Identity in China

The Twentieth Century

Xin Fan

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Nationalism is pervasive in China today. Yet nationalism is not entrenched in China's intellectual tradition. Over the course of the twentieth century, the combined forces of cultural, social, and political …
Disability Studies June 6, 2023

The Disabled Child

Memoirs of a Normal Future

Amanda Apgar

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When children are born with disabilities or become disabled in childhood, parents often experience bewilderment: they find themselves unexpectedly in another world, without a roadmap, without community, and without narratives …
Disability Studies June 3, 2023

Dyslexia

A History

Philip Kirby and Margaret J. Snowling

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In 1896 the British physician William Pringle Morgan published an account of “Percy,” a “bright and intelligent boy, quick at games, and in no way inferior to others of his …
Disability Studies June 1, 2023

Prenatal Genetic Testing, Abortion, and Disability Justice

Amber Knight and Joshua Miller

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The routinization of non-invasive prenatal genetic testing (NIPT) raises urgent questions about disability rights and reproductive justice. Supporters defend NIPT on the grounds that genetic information about the fetus helps …